Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Almanacs
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A List of New York Almanacs, 1694-1850
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Western Farmer and Gardener
Author: The Farmer's almanac and calendar: by C.W. Johnson and W. Shaw
Author: Cuthbert William JohnsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Steward of the Land
Author: Thomas AffleckPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807158127
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In the first collection of published writings of Thomas Affleck (1812--1868), Lake Douglas re-establishes the reputation of a tireless agricultural reformer, entrepreneur, and horticulturist. Affleck's wide range of interests -- animal husbandry, agriculture, scientific farming, ornamental horticulture, insects, and hydrology, among others -- should afford him a celebrated status in several disciplines; yet until now his immense contributions remained largely unheralded. Steward of the Land remedies this oversight with a broad, annotated selection of Affleck's works, rightfully placing him alongside his better-known contemporaries Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted. After immigrating to the United States from Scotland in 1832, Affleck witnessed the burgeoning American expansion and its major advances in agriculture and technology. He worked as a journalist for the influential Western Farmer and Gardener, covering Ohio, Kentucky, and the Mississippi River Valley. Affleck moved to Mississippi in 1842 to manage his new wife's failing plantation; there, he created one of the first commercial nurseries of the South while writing prolifically on numerous agrarian topics for regional periodicals and newspapers. From 1845 to 1865 he edited Affleck's Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar, published in New Orleans. Following a postwar move to Brenham, Texas, he published letters and essays about rebuilding that state's livestock herds and rejuvenating its agricultural labor forces. Steward of the Land includes excerpts from dozens of Affleck's articles on subjects ranging from bee keeping to gardening to orchard tending. This valuable single-volume resource reveals Affleck's astonishing breadth of horticultural knowledge and entrepreneurial sagacity, and his role in educating mid-nineteenth-century readers about agricultural products and practices, plant usage, and environmental stewardship. Never before collected or contextualized, Affleck's writings provide a firsthand account of the advancement of agricultural techniques and practices that created a new environmental awareness in America.
The Farmer's Almanac and Calendar
Author: Cuthbert William JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Magazine of Horticulture, Botany and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs
Author: Charles Mason HoveyPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Historic Magazine and Notes and Queries
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
List of bibliographies and trans. in v. 1-12.
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